Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Try and recruit for a startup which is bootstrapping and doesn't have the > luxury of spending VC millions and you really feel the pinch. It was tough
I am doing that, and thoroughly enjoying every minute of it. I hire mainly freshers and in under a month they are productive without the bad habits inculcated by the large IT firms in Bangalore. > need somebody to review every line of code they write (who in turn needs to > be paid a bomb), or hire a group of 2-3 years experience guys who you You will be surprised at the quality of code that is generated if you trust the young ones and have some decent processes in place including peer review. > ourselves into over the past few years is not sustainable in the long run if > we're to remain competitive. All the big companies are firing, and at all levels. The worst affected are the middle managers. Nobody wants them now, they don't trust they can do the job. The sanity correction has started. Venkat
